Archive: 2005

Chances are you’ve heard of MySpace.
The social networking site has ballooned into a multimedia phenomenon, with new and established bands alike promoting themselves through online word-of-mouth like never before.
Now the site has picked five of its best and brightest up-and-coming acts to travel the country for nearly two months on the MySpace Fall Tour, which kicks off in Dallas October 26 at The Door.
Arizona-based road dogs Greeley Estates and San Diego five-piece My American Heart – both fresh off the Vans Warped Tour – top the bill, along with A Change of Pace, Agent Sparks, and The Confession.
The bands’ youthful energy will be put to the test on the packed itinerary, which includes dates in nearly 45 cities. The tour wraps December 16 in Phoenix.
More info – and, of course, sound clips – can be found at myspace.com/falltour.

Source pollstar.com.

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An Announcement from Phil Lesh & Friends

We are thrilled to announce our plans for 3 very special shows at the end of December and for New Year’s Eve. Phil Lesh & Friends will team up with the John Mayer Trio for 3 magical nights of music, culminating with our first San Francisco New Year’s Eve show in many years.

Phil Lesh & Friends featuring Joan Osborne, Jimmy Herring, Barry Sless, Rob Barraco and Jeff Sipe along with the John Mayer Trio will be performing on December 29 at The Fillmore, December 30 at The Warfield Theater, and on December 31 at the Bill Graham Civic Center. We are planning a New Year’s Eve show that would make Bill Graham proud including a special midnight set featuring Phil and John Mayer.

Public on-sale for the San Francisco shows in December will commence on Sunday, November 6 at 10:00 AM. A special limited pre-sale will take place starting on Monday, October 24. Stay tuned for details.

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The String Cheese Incident had come to Portland ME and Hampton NH(towns a little more than an hour apart) for a four consecutive night run that proved to be a northeast dream run come true.

While preparing for his current tour with Black Label Society, Glide caught up with Ozzy Osbourne’s lead guitarist Zakk Wylde to speak about the loss of his good friend Dimebag Darrell, filling in for Dickey Betts in the Allman Brothers Band, spending the years with Ozzy and just plan old ass whoopin rock and roll.

Widely regarded as one of Phish’s finest live performances and named one of the “Greatest Concerts of the ’90s” by Rolling Stone, Phish celebrates the 10th Anniversary of their 12/31/95 performance with the release of “Phish: New Year’s Eve 1995 – Live At Madison Square Garden”, in stores December 20th.

“The years just keep sliding by.” Trey said it best during Fly Famous Mockingbird. Phish stormed Madison Square Garden on their annual holiday tour for a night of music, myth, theater and celebration. The Deluxe 3-CD set includes the complete three-set show (27 tracks and more than three and a half hours of music).

Phish.com will be your official Backstage Pass to New Year’s Eve 1995, so keep checking in for exciting announcements in the coming months.

Southern rock act the Drive-By Truckers are spending much of their fall putting the finishing touches on their as-yet-untitled sixth studio album, due next spring on New West Records. According to group member Patterson Hood, the songs will be fresh to even the band’s die-hard fan base.

“Most everything on it is real new,” he tells Billboard.com. “Lord knows I’ve got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we’ve written since we started recording.”

That’s a new technique for the Truckers, whose catalog stretches back almost two decades — Hood and Trucker co-founder Mike Cooley will celebrate their 20th anniversary making music together next August.

“We’re at that point where we’ve cut enough songs, but I’m not quite sure where the final edit’s gonna go,” he says. “It could go three pretty radically different directions — to me there’s one that’s probably a little more obvious, so most likely that’s what’ll happen. But things can always change when you have this many crazy, temperamental people in a room,” he adds with a chuckle.

Hood is also keeping busy on the solo side as well. Asked if his second solo album, “Murdering Oscar and Other Love Songs” would see the light of day soon, he replied with a laugh, “Goddammit, it needs to!”

Hood will wait until after the next Truckers record to mix and master “Oscar,” the follow-up to his dark 2004 release “Killers and Stars.” “Oscar” will feature Hood’s father, longtime Muscle Shoals session man David Hood, as well as Truckers Cooley, Jason Isbell and Shonna Tucker. Rough mixes of the tracks “Pollyanna” and “Grandaddy” are available at PattersonHood.com.

“I couldn’t be prouder of it,” Hood says of the album. “I think chronologically, it was the next record for me, it’s was what needed to follow up ‘The Dirty South.’ But for right now, it’s on hold.”

The solo set, as well as some of Hood’s new Truckers material, have been influenced his new status as a father. His first daughter was born eight months ago; “Oscar,” he says, was written and recorded “while I was pretty much waiting for her to be born, because the studio’s five minutes from my house.”

In addition, Hood says the song “World of Hurt,” inspired by his daughter, will be the Truckers’ disc’s last track. Of the tune, he says, “It’s about figuring out a way to turn the demons that can threaten to destroy you when you’re an angry young man into something that you live with and maybe even do well with, and I think certainly that’s been the case with me.”

Hood will play solo Oct. 25 in New York, then rejoin the Truckers for fall shows beginning Oct. 27 in Auburn, Ala. Solo albums from Cooley and Isbell are also in the pipeline.

Source billboard.com.

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